The Stranger-Than-Fiction Tale of a Singaporean Film Stolen Then Reclaimed

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“When you’re growing up in the stultifying landscape of Singapore, where everything’s uniformly grey in the urban areas and uniformly green in the rural areas, and there’s nothing in between really, you just have to make your own culture and your own fun,” says writer and filmmaker Sandi Tan. She’s speaking from experience. Coming of age in the 1980s on the small, conservative island, where chewing gum was illegal, and independent cinema was an entirely foreign concept that…

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The Stranger-Than-Fiction Tale of a Singaporean Film Stolen Then Reclaimed
By Daisy Woodward

October 30, 2018 at 10:32AM
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